Improved washing and wringing machine



Y UNITED STATES JOHN S. IIASH, OF CARLISLE, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPVROVED WASHING ANDVWRINGING MACHIN.

Spccilication forming part of Letters Patent No. 36,658, dated October 14, 1862.

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Be it known that I, JOI-IN S. LASH, of Carlisle, Cumberland county, and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Apparatus for Vashing and Vringing Clothes; and I hereby declare that the following is a true and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings, and to theletters of reference marked thereon.

The object Inyinvention is the construction of apparatus for washing and wringing clothes, so arranged as to avoid the labor and'waste of time experienced in adjusting two separate machines together, as in the case of other washers and wrin gers.

In the drawings annexed, Figure l represents a vertical section of my machine, taken lengthwise. Fig. 2 is a plan view ofthe rubiber.

rIhc body of the machine consists of an ob! long box, the end where the operator stands being about a foot in depth, but increasing gradually in depth until it reaches the point a, and there'the platform terminates in an abrupt descent, which forms one side of the tub D.

Above the platform A is a series of rollers arranged at right angles with the sides of the box, and having their bearings in its sides. These rollers extend from near the tub D to the point c, being placed about half an inch above the platforml A, and sufficiently far apart to revolve without contact.

The rubber C consists of a dat board with slats nailed on the under surface, and in line with the rollers upon which they are designed to act. These slats may be less than an inch 'in width, rounded at the edges, to prevent E is the handle of the rubber, secured in position by passing through the boards h, which are fastened edgewiseA to the rubber C, and inside of the springs d d.

AIn operating this machine the operator stands at the shallow end of the box and moves the rubber backward and forward over the rollers g g, elevating the end next to him when the material to be washed requires it, the lower end of the rubberbeing elevated by the yielding'of the springs d d.

At the tub end of the box the frame for holding the wringer is placed. This consists of two uprights, a section of one being eX- hibited by H in Fig. l. These uprights are bound together at top by the cross-tieLabove the rollers, and the ties K and I` below them, inside of the uprights, and playing vertically upon their surface is the gate or movable frame G, the sides of which are kept in position by the uprights, and by a lapin the ends of the inclined board m m, being designed tof conduct the escape-water into the tub D. The sides of the gate G have openingsin them eX- tending far enough beneath and above the rollers SS to admit of the play ofS in adapting itself to the material passing under it. The roller S passes through this opening and through its bearing in the upright H, and S through the same opening` and through a correspond'- ing one in H. The cross-bara connects the sides of the gate G. To this bar the pitman O is fastened, and7 descending below the crosstie I), is adjusted to the lever R by a bolt, P, A

acting as the fulcrum to R. By the lever R the pressure of S upon S is regulated.

Having thus described my machine, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, Is-

The gate or movable frame G, the pitlnan O, the lever R, the roller S', the rubber C, the

springs d d, the grooves f f, and the rollers gg;

the whole arrranged in the manner and for the purpose herein fully set forth and described.

JOHN S. LASH.

Vitnessos:

DAVID SMITH, J. WHISTLER. 

